Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regular nail polish will always be a mainstay for me, but I also don't see myself breaking up with gel manicures anytime soon.

A big question surrounding gel manicures is if the UV nail lamp used to cure the polish is safe for the skin. This topic has long been debated, with numerous studies over the last few decades ...

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation is known to cause skin damage, including skin cancer. Now, new research has raised questions about the safety of nail dryers, which use UV light to dry and cure gel ...

UV dryers are often used in nail salons to dry gel nail polish. Researchers wanted to better understand how the dryers and the radiation they admit impact the body. They they exposed human and mouse ...

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Doing your own gel manicures isn't as difficult as it might seem, as long as you have the right tools. Most importantly, you're going to need one of the best UV nail lamps — which should have multiple ...

New research shows that UV-nail polish dryers, typically used to cure gel manicures, can cause DNA damage in your hands. UV rays are known to cause skin cancer at high exposures, but very little ...

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